Therapeutic Area Lead CVRM

Position: Therapeutic Area Lead CVRM
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Competitive Salary, Excellent Benefits, Development Opportunities

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, Medical? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the lives of patients in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

Business Area

Ambitious and determined, we do it for our patients. Every one of us firmly believes that our disruptive thinking has the possibility to change the practice of medicine. And ultimately impact millions of lives across the world. 

Leaders for the business and the industry, we are not afraid to step out of our comfort zone to make things happen.

What you’ll do

The Therapeutic Area Lead is an internal and externally facing medical role that strategically influences and operatively contributes to scientific leadership, life cycle management and brand strategies in the assigned therapeutic area. The TAL has medical and clinical expertise and owns full accountability for the delivery of the local medical affairs initiatives.

These could include, but are not necessarily restricted to, scientific partnership building and exchange with key experts, advisory boards, medical evidence planning, ESRs, scientific communications, competitive intelligence, patient engagement and ensuring alignment with commercial & market access initiatives.

The TA-Lead is responsible for line management of Medical Affairs Managers, Medical Advisors and Medical Science Liaisons in her/his team and ensures that the team effectively develops, implements, and executes the local medical brand plan. The delivery of medical initiatives is performed in close collaboration with other Medical and non-medical Functions, as , Market Access, Patient Safety, Diagnostics, ClinOps, Regulatory Affairs. She/ he ensures, that the Medical Activities meet the needs of patients and HCPs with the highest scientific and ethical standards.

These outputs are guaranteed through continuously defining and building robust scientific and medical expertise on the therapeutic area, AstraZeneca products and its competitors in combination with a strategic business acumen attitude and strong communication skills in close collaboration with Medical Excellence and Peers.

Other responsibilities will include

Medical Management

Acts as strategic and operative partner for implementation of the overall strategy for the TA in a cross functional model

Integrates, interprets, and disseminates scientific evidence and content on AZ products and disease areas of focus to support the brand strategy and to support disease/product value messages to internal and external stakeholders.

Identifies, prioritises, and reviews opportunities to generate evidence to clinically differentiate AZ products and better understand overall disease state management based on external stakeholder perspectives and the needs of AZ regions and markets

Leads development of specific scientific communications activities, conference symposia or specific scientific meetings sponsored by AZ, such as external physician or patient expert meetings

Delivers the appropriate interpretation and preserves the integrity of medical evidence

Is accountable for the development and execution of the medical affairs plan according to budget and timelines

Is accountable for the overall TA budget and resource planning

Works in a strategic partnership with the Marketing and Market Access departments, providing key input in the local operational brand strategy by ensuring input of KEE, customer insights and competitive intelligence

Is responsible for the overall above-brand medical TA strategy

Acts as the patient insight expert in the assigned disease and therapeutic area team by deeply understanding the unique needs, experiences, patient journey and relevant outcomes for patients

Facilitates patient insight knowledge sharing by raising awareness about patient insight strategies and activities

Maintains a good working knowledge of company standards on medicines promotion and supports the Nominated Signatories in ensuring compliance standards for external audiences

Sustains a “patient focus” in all design and interpretation activities (, internal stakeholders, regulators, payers, prescribers, patients)

Keeps own knowledge of best practices and relevant developments up to date

Responds to unsolicited Medical Information (MI) requests about approved or unapproved AstraZeneca products, or about unapproved uses of approved AstraZeneca products

Works together with External Service Provider for MI to meet the requirements set in the local MI procedure

People Management

Provides strong leadership in managing the diverse office and field-based team.

Coaches and develops the whole Team to develop best in class capabilities (scientific expertise, communication skills, business acumen)

Responsible for supervising the TA Medical Affairs activities, ensuring operational excellence.

Responsible for establishing robust strategic partnerships between the Medical Affairs team and other functions.

Creates and manages budget and allocation of medical resources according to the MTP strategy and plans

Responsible for identifying, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding external and internal talents.

Responsible for driving the establishment of a network of external medical experts within the TA to support internal medical resources.

Engage with key external stakeholders

Responsible for putting the local AZ medical functions in contact with their respective global/regional AZ functions within their respective TAs

Accountable for the team’s and individuals’ level of competence being right as well as driving a high level of ethics, quality and integrity complying with all relevant standards, regulations, and legislation

Essential for the role

MD, PhD, PharmD or comparable degree in natural sciences

Austrian Drug law (Arzneimittelgesetz), Pharmig Code of conduct ​

Project and stakeholder management experience

Experience with evidence generation and clinical trial methodology

Possesses business-acumen and thinking, able to apply this without compromising scientific and ethical standards

Strategic insight

Budget and financial management experience and knowledge

Experience delivering country medical affairs plans

Good understanding of Pharmaceutical Development ( Clinical Research and R&D strategy)

Understanding of the latest technical, regulatory, policy and real-world evidence generation dimensions

Proven experience and track record of strong content and lateral leadership skills, eventually line-management

Ability to seek and critically assess a large amount of data, distil, and synthesize information, put it into context and evaluate its impact on the business

Fluency in written and spoken German & English

Thorough knowledge and experience within the pharmaceutical industry, health care systems and payer structures including at least 3 years as Medical Affairs Manager (> 5 years desirable)

Thorough knowledge within the assigned Therapeutic area or proven track record of quickly adopting new therapeutic area expertise

Team player with proven track record of cross functional collaboration

Drivers Licence B

Date Posted

04-Jun-2024

Closing Date

18-Jun-2024

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